Letter from Interim City Clerk Paula M. Crane transmitting a memorandum from Councillor Siddiqui, submitting the Mayor's Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Tenant Displacement May 21, 2019 meeting minutes

CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL Sumbul Siddiqui City Councillor To: Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk From: Sumbul Siddiqui, City Councillor Date: June 6, 2019 Subject: Submission - Mayor's Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Tenant Displacement May 21, 2019 Meeting Minutes Madame Clerk: Please place the attached minutes from the fifth meeting of the Mayor's Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Tenant Displacement on the City Council Agenda as "Communications and Reports from Other City Officials" for the June 10" meeting. Thank you, Will fath Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui Cambridge City Council

Betsy Eichel Jessica Drew Sonia Andujar Patrick Barrett Teresa Cardosi Kuong Lee Larry Field Beth Huang Iram Farooq Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui, Chair Maura Pensak Working Meeting Task Force Members in Attendance: Sullivan Chamber, City Hall Absent: Sean Hope Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Task Force Members 795 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02139 convened the working meeting at 5:32 pm with 10 members present. Alexandra Markiewicz Attendance: MEETING MINUTES Mayor's Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Tenant Displacement with gratitude for her life of dedicated advocacy and service to the Cambridge community. Councillor Siddiqui Sarah Stillman, Aide to City of Cambridge Staff in Tenant Displacement Task Force Meeting Minutes: May 21, 2019 Eichel of the Legislative & Policy Agenda Working Group, along with Chair Siddiqui, met to discuss the group's work on developing and Task Force Representative funding options (e.g. a fundraising "Walk Fund"), limitations of the Richard Rossi Fund, and the need for crafting broad language around City of Cambridge Staff Absent: Sullivan Chamber at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui, Chair of the Task Force, The Mayor's Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Tenant Displacement convened for an informal, working meeting on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in the challenges Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services is facing, such as funding cuts to services for elders in private housing, ideas for flexible from a Philadelphia task force on eviction response, which Ms. Pensak and Ms. Andujar then left to review. Larry Field, Beth Huang and Betsy Siddiqui and Sarah Stillman discussed with Funding Working Group members Teresa Cardosi, Kuong Lee and Jessica Drew some of the current The Mayor's Blue-Ribbon Task Force on Tenant Displacement remembers its esteemed honorary member, Cheryl-Ann Pizza-Zeoli (1957- 2019), Chair Siddiqui on the status of the group's workplan, to be translated in to the Task Force's final recommendations; Chair Siddiqui noted a report Wilford Durbin, Mayor's Chief of Staff stabilization of tenancies vs. rental arrearages. Maura Pensak and Sonia Andujar of the Tenant Education Working Group checked in briefly with The Task Force members broke out in to Working Groups to discuss updates and continue making progress on their respective action areas. Chair recommended updates to the City's 1983 Condo Conversion Ordinance. They were joined by Iram Farooq, Task Force member and Assistant City

Tenant Displacement Task Force Meeting Minutes: May 21, 2019 insight and answered questions from Working Group members. The working meeting was adjourned at 7:30 PM. Manager tor Community Development, and Chris Cotter, Housing Director at the Cambridge Community Development Department, who oftered